- Fat cat gaudette (17 Dec 05)
On its 17 December cover The Tablet features Andy Warhol's delightful Nativity. I had little idea of Warhol's Catholicism. I like Tina Beattie's beautiful cover article "Simple gaudette of a ...
- Pledged to God's love (16 Dec 05)
Extracted from The Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas Message to the Anglican CommunionThere is something about Christianity that always pulls us back from imagining that everything will be all right if ...
- A green left Christian (16 Dec 05)
Jill Rowbotham The Australian's religious affairs writer has written a long piece titled "It's cool to be Christian" (16 December). She mentions some high profile Australian Christians and argues rather ...
- Nicholas, Crissmas and Exmas (06 Dec 05)
In honour of 6 December the feast of St. Nicholas this protest by C.S. Lewis:And beyond this there lies in the ocean . . . the island of Niatirb which ...
- Out of limbo (04 Dec 05)
According to Zenit (6 December) the International Theological Commission of the Roman Catholic Church is studying Limbo and is to publish a document about children who die without being baptized. ...
- Unknown intentions (01 Dec 05)
Pope Benedict XVI has announced the granting to the faithful of a Plenary Indulgence for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception which on 8 December will mark 40 years since ...
- Traditional vilification (26 Nov 05)
(Extracted from "The best of enemies " by the Revd Prof Christopher Rowland Dean Ireland's professor of the exegesis of holy scripture in the University of Oxford. The Guardian 12 ...
- Execution and the sacredness of life (26 Nov 05)
Coincidence can be pleasant or appalling. The fatal shooting of a woman police constable in Bradford England has reopened debate in England about capital punishment. At the same time we ...
- Think it possible . . . (26 Nov 05)
Thanks to Weary Pilgrim for this: "I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken." --Oliver Cromwell in a 1650 letter to the General ...
- Australis Incognitia? (26 Nov 05)
The Church Times features the complaints made by at least three of the primates against the use of their names without consultation on a much-publicised letter to Archbishop of Canterbury. ...
- Eloquence and clarity (22 Nov 05)
Confession Reader reminds us that 22 November is the anniversary of the death of C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963) and shares with us this prayer from James Kiefer's hagiography. Almighty ...
- Marriage not for church? (22 Nov 05)
The Washington Post (15 Nov.) reports that a local Presbyterian congregation in Virginia has decided no longer to celebrate officially registered marriages. Rather it will conduct "Celebrations of commitment" for ...
- 'Help' from Sydney? (17 Nov 05)
First published in 1880 the Australian Church Record is a venerable newspaper; its 1888th edition was published this month Nov. 2005. But it title belies it's content; it is not ...
- Plain meaning or epistemic community? (16 Nov 05)
AnglicansOnline in its 13 November front page notes that a phrase commonly used those speaking on occasions like week's conference of Anglican conservatives in Pittsburgh is 'the clear message of ...
- Unfaithful divisions (15 Nov 05)
I'm struck by the contrast between the urge-to-divide felt by some Anglicans and the desire-to-be-together experienced between (representatives of) the Anglican Communion and their Roman Catholic counterparts in the International ...
- The shrewdness of the Spirit (12 Nov 05)
Introducing the 17 December 2004 edition of National Catholic Reporter. editor Tom Roberts said "Evidence is abundant that among the nervous tics of the age is the urge to reduce ...
- Terrorism, 5 Nov 1605 (07 Nov 05)
Saturday saw the big annual fund-raising effort for our local parish -- the "Twilight Fair". (James and I ran the second-hand book stall and made about $700.) Everyone was much ...
- Doing it in public (theology that is) (03 Nov 05)
On Tuesday evening we went to the launch of Graeme Garrett's delightful new book Dodging angels on Saturday: or why being a theologian in the Twentieth Century seemed like a ...
- Not proven (30 Oct 05)
"The Enlightenment is over and atheism has lost its moral cutting edge." So argues Alister McGrath in The Times (29 Oct) commenting on the World Congress of the International Academy ...
- The Archbishop's dream (26 Oct 05)
Every year or so hundreds of Anglican bishops give an annual presidential address or 'charge' to their synod or convention. Often they're well worth reading. In his Synod charge on ...
- Confirming sensibly (19 Oct 05)
The Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney has passed this resolution on administration of confirmation by priests and other things to do with confirmation.16.10 Administration of confirmation by presbyters ...
- Sydney's affiliates (18 Oct 05)
From the Sydney Morning Herald this morning (18 Oct):Anglican plan to go forth and multiply with rival churches raises alarm Sydney Anglicans plan to offer refuge to dissidents of rival ...
- Affiliated Sydneysiders? (14 Oct 05)
The agenda for the Synod of the Diocese of Sydney now underway includes a bill for "An Ordinance to provide for the affiliation of non-Anglican churches with the Anglican Church ...
- Australia's spiritual problem (12 Oct 05)
The spiritual problem of our community is unwillingness to commit. That is what above all else stands in the way of the gospel being received. There are many wonderful exceptions ...
- Every member of the same (10 Oct 05)
Last Saturday I participated in a well-attended one-day conference of Lay Ministers from across our diocese. One of the many interesting things mentioned by Dr Stephen Pickard in his keynote ...
- Dodging angels (10 Oct 05)
Permit me gentle reader to put in a plug for a new book by my friend and teacher Revd Canon Dr Graeme Garrett. Graeme who is now a Senior Fellow ...
- Institution and anarchy (09 Oct 05)
I have been reading Anarchy church and utopia: Rowan Williams on church by Theo Hobson. (London: Darton Longman and Todd 2005) Hobson makes a valuable short analysis of Archbishop Rowan ...
- All have baggage (07 Oct 05)
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu who on 30 November will be enthroned as Archbishop of York and Primate of England has told Stephen Bates of the ...
- Willing to be touched (26 Sep 05)
I said I was done with notes about our Synod a couple of weeks back. But now that our local Anglican newspaper has quoted some of Dr Stephen Pickard's Synod ...
- Living the Mission (18 Sep 05)
For my last item flowing out of the Synod last week I want to take note of its theme Living the Mission. For much the past ten years led by ...
- Australian churches covenanting together (18 Sep 05)
Two more items last weekend's local Synod and then I'm done! The Synod decided to encourage action to put into practice locally a covenant made last year between most of ...
- Legislated communion (16 Sep 05)
More Synod stuff; from Thinking Anglicans I learn of a decision by the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) to redefine the basis of its relationship with other Anglican Churches. The ...
- Life-giving justice (15 Sep 05)
One of the small tasks of the Synod was to launch a booklet (which I helped to draft) "to focus our thinking prayer and action for life giving justice" as ...
- Justice, equity and the war on terror (15 Sep 05)
If we are to live with the expectation of the "Promised Land" we should replace the language of a "war on terror" with the language of serving justice and ...
- Ways to freedom (31 Aug 05)
I'm just beginning to read The Four Agreements: a practical guide to personal freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz (Amber-Allen 1997).Everything we do is based on agreements we have made--agreements with ...
- The Afro-Anglican Toronto Accord (05 Aug 05)
The Third Afro-Anglicanism Conference recently concluded in Toronto. In opening the nine-day conference Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town urged black Anglicans to share and live out the Southern African ...
- Feeling reasonable and reasonable feeling (24 Jul 05)
In the The Church Times (22 July) Giles Fraser replies to a piece in The Guardian (16 July) by Dr Tom Wright debating with him the place of feelings versus ...
- Pre-judged translation (20 Jul 05)
The current debate about the appointment of women bishops in the Church of England and the Anglican Church of Australia brings to attention an example of how our theological presumptions ...
- A courteous exchange (17 Jul 05)
At titusonenine the Revd Dr Kendall Harmon provides a steady stream of interesting current documents largely from a 'conservative' perspective. I've commented on quite a few. But as I explained ...
- Eucharist and Africa (16 Jul 05)
The latest issue of Christianity Today (49):7 July 2005 p. 40 has an informative article by Douglas Le Blanc about Archbishop Akinola and the increasingly central place in Christianity of ...
- A Primate well chosen (09 Jul 05)
The Archbishop of Brisbane the Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall has been elected the new head of the Anglican Church of Australia. He is a good choice. At 44 Dr Aspinall ...
- On not being so certain (05 Jul 05)
A couple of weeks ago our Sunday readings included the Genesis 22 account of Abraham's response to God's demand that he sacrifice his son Isaac. God tested Abraham. He said ...
- Faith is . . . (30 Jun 05)
Faith: This is another FMW (Frequently Misunderstood Word). It is often used to mean something like 'blind guess'. Many words evoke a picture and the snapshot that flashes upon the ...
- Why I have confidence in Christ (07 Jun 05)
I am a candidate for appointment as lay minister in my local church. So I was asked to share a little of my journey of faith during the service last ...
- Keeping a guest busy (07 Jun 05)
Our guest is being kept busy. Tonight the Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky gave a fine public lecture at St. Mark's in Canberra on "Justice and Freedom". The lecture will ...
- Mary, Sagovsky, ARCIC and Dombes (07 Jun 05)
The Reverend Dr Nicholas Sagovsky has been visiting us at St. Mark's National Theological Centre in Canberra for the last several days. He is Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey and ...
- Mary released (02 Jun 05)
Please see the update in this entry. ...
- Talking about Mary (20 May 05)
The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) has released its 'agreed statement' Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ. The report was officially launched at St James' Roman Catholic Cathedral Seattle on ...
- Testimony at Pentecost (17 May 05)
Amidst all the various words of prayer and preaching surrounding Pentecost this year I have been blessed by the words of Frenchman Jean-Marc at his site gayanglican.blogspot.com. Jean-Marc is Parisian ...
- The Anglo-Lutheran family (09 May 05)
In some Christian traditions the time between the Ascension and Pentecost is marked by special prayer for Christian unity. This is a good time to give thanks for progress towards ...
- Circular Spirit (21 Apr 05)
In a post a couple of days ago thinking about the papal conclave and the like I asked how the cardinal electors could possibly know or even dare assume that ...
- Whose choice? (19 Apr 05)
An Associated Press piece by William Kole (18 April) gives an update on the conclave now underway in Rome to elect the next Pope. Cardinal Ratzinger is quoted as seeking ...
- In the desert: watching ourselves think (18 Apr 05)
Writer and poet William L. Fox has published several books about art architecture and memory in desert landscapes. He was in Canberra to speak at a conference on Desert Gardens ...
- Wanted: another kind of greatness (07 Apr 05)
Writing in the The Telegraph (6 April) Ferdinand Mount argues that John Paul II "was a great pope. . . but he deserted the search for truth." Mount mentions four ...
- Millions have left (05 Apr 05)
Before one gets too carried away in adulation of the late Pope this criticism by Hans Küng is worth reading in full: The Pope's Contradictions Der Spiegel 26 March 2005. ...
- The contribution of diversity (03 Apr 05)
From titusonenine I learn that the (Anglican) Church of Ireland issued a Preliminary response to the Windsor Report on 25 January (PDF file). Respondents were asked to answer four questions ...
- Easter excellence (01 Apr 05)
Here's an great story plucked out of the Internet from an article by Mark Gunderman in the Chippewa Herald (Wisconsin USA) of 27 March and the Duluth News Tribune of ...
- A dangerous legacy (25 Feb 05)
In his Guardian review (12 Feb) of The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II's Papacy by John Cornwell (Viking) Stephen Bates says that Cornwell has shown ...
- Williams on unity, truth and the Spirit (22 Feb 05)
The speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England's debate on the Windsor Report ( 17th February) is now available in full on his website. Though I ...
- A primer for the primates (21 Feb 05)
In an article in Telegraph of 21 Feb. about the upcoming Anglican primates' meeting its Religion correspondent Jonathan Petre says rather breathlesslessly that:The Telegraph has learned that the conservatives are ...
- Maturity not government (20 Feb 05)
Theo Hobson writes in The Tablet (19 Feb) that "the question of the ordination of homosexuals" is the "bull in the china shop of Anglican ecclesiology; and it is still ...
- The tsunami and the "Why?" (15 Jan 05)
The tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 has provoked questions about "Why does God permit such suffering?" or "How can God exist in the face of such evil?" I am ...
- And after Christmas ... (06 Jan 05)
6th January the first day after Christmas and the feast of the Epiphany the manifestation of Christ to the world: we recall the story of the 'wise men from the ...
- Tsunami, prayer and the existence of God (05 Jan 05)
Rowan Williams (more properly His Grace the Right Honourable and Most Reverend Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury - pictured) wrote this excellent but subtle piece which was published in ...
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